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Why you age slower on a plane (and other incredibly strange effects of relativity)

One of my favourite scientific experiments involved flying four clocks twice around the world. In 1971, physicists Joseph Hafele and Richard Keating took atomic clocks – capable of losing no more than one second every 30 million years – on a commercial jet, flying first west and then east around …

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